Professor
Casey Richardson
Most Helpful Review
Richardson made this class a lot more difficult than it needed to be. The material itself is not hard to understand (as long as you have a basic understanding for calculus), but Prof. Richardson consistently put topics on the test that were irrelevant and not covered in class. His tests are extremely hard and he aims for an average of around 50% to "get a nice bell curve". I ended up getting an A- in the class, but I felt like I had mastered the material better than that grade indicated. Make sure you take advantage of all the freebie points he gives, such as homework. If you can, I would try to take this class with an easier, better rated professor. If not, it's not the end of the world, but be prepared to really work and dedicate a good amount of time to this class.
Richardson made this class a lot more difficult than it needed to be. The material itself is not hard to understand (as long as you have a basic understanding for calculus), but Prof. Richardson consistently put topics on the test that were irrelevant and not covered in class. His tests are extremely hard and he aims for an average of around 50% to "get a nice bell curve". I ended up getting an A- in the class, but I felt like I had mastered the material better than that grade indicated. Make sure you take advantage of all the freebie points he gives, such as homework. If you can, I would try to take this class with an easier, better rated professor. If not, it's not the end of the world, but be prepared to really work and dedicate a good amount of time to this class.
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well i learned a lot... he went over stuff in great detail. i guess the last person on this wasn't listening, because he told us we can write whatever we want on his evaluation because he was leaving ucla. but his tests were hard. and the negative points made the test even harder. the lowest score on the final was a 0%... so someone who actually goes to ucla... made it all the way to math 31B... and couldn't even get 1 points out of 100 ... on a FINAL! ...
well i learned a lot... he went over stuff in great detail. i guess the last person on this wasn't listening, because he told us we can write whatever we want on his evaluation because he was leaving ucla. but his tests were hard. and the negative points made the test even harder. the lowest score on the final was a 0%... so someone who actually goes to ucla... made it all the way to math 31B... and couldn't even get 1 points out of 100 ... on a FINAL! ...